Brazil’s Rousseff Would Win Race in First Round, Datafolha Shows
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Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff would win re-election in a first round of balloting in October, defeating opposition Senator Aecio Neves and Pernambuco state Governor Eduardo Campos with 47 percent of intended votes, a Datafolha poll said.
Neves, an ally of former president Fernando Henrique Cardoso of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party, or PSDB, would get 17 percent of votes, the pollster linked to Folha de S.Paulo said in a survey published on the newspaper’s website. Campos of the Brazilian Socialist Party, or PSB, would get 12 percent. There would be no runoff because Rousseff’s votes would exceed the sum of those for the other two candidates, the Feb. 19-20 survey of 2,614 people in 161 cities showed.